And /dfrn_request
has been available until July 2021, so I could check the version tag to show either.
It looks like we could open the target server's /remote_follow
page to do this instead of having to create a directory page for it, it's been available since February 2020.
Unfortunately, you are right, I guess we have to use the XRD fetch then, which will prevent accounts coming from nodes the directory doesn't know about to have a direct follow link.
I see what you mean, but with your idea this would also deteriorate the frontend experience that would depend on a remote node lookup.
Instead I think we can store the subscribe URL for each…
Michael technical answer: https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/ec054ce7-2062-6684-5d34-028654304119
In the XRD we are propagating the endpoint for http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe. …